pat ford mentioned kogel. we are determined and aggressive about wanting to use our travel resources our training and travel resources to get employees to places where we can all absorb and learn from our peers and share information as pat and others will be doing on panels this year. so this year we have a good handful of people go into the conference and i think that's an important thing to do for people to keep current and all the issues we'll learn from best practices and see what's happening in san francisco because there's a lot of work underway with all the work the commission has been doing the past year. we are likely not to attend in the coming year too. there are conferences that have been established two or three-years out but some are in cities where there is a no-travel policy that are happening in those jurisdictions so we will be following lead on that, obviously. so i think it's timely to be able to send employees to this conference in chicago next year there is a conference in georgia, and th

last year, pat ford and i did a lot of outreach to members of the press. i'll be continuing that type of work and looking to expand the audience. there's a high level overview and a quick update but i didn't want to get lost in jargon and phone numbers. i'm happy to open it up to additional questions that you may have. >> any other questions? >> this is a quantum leap forward in the presentation of the data is accessible and it's undeunderstandable and makes it easier for people to find the information that they need and i would like to hear more as plans become more concrete on how the outreach is going and which organizations -- there was the reporter who came previously and i think that he was surprised and delighted to learn there could be a cool like this -- i'm not sure where it resides and compliance and engagement to just keep usebreast of the efforts to promulgate this more widely would be great. >> thank you. >> any public comments? >> my name is ellen and i am a public employee and i am a resident both of san francisco and whatever you are doing